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{{Short description|Australian record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Room40
| image_name  =
| image       = Room40 Logo.jpg
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| founded     = {{Start date|2000}}
| founder     = [[Lawrence English]]
| status      = <!-- leave blank unless "Inactive" -->
| genre       = [[Experimental music]]
| country     = [[Australia]]
| location    = [[Brisbane]]
| url         = {{URL|room40.org}}
}}
'''Room40''' is an Australian independent record label founded by [[Lawrence English]].
The label has released work by Australian and international musicians such as [[Erik Griswold]], [[Chihei Hatakeyama]], [[Mike Cooper (musician)|Mike Cooper]], [[Ben Frost]], and [[Beatriz Ferreyra]]. They have had over 300 releases since 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Room40|url=https://www.discogs.com/label/16420-Room40|access-date=2022-02-25|website=[[Discogs]]|language=en}}</ref>
Room40's first releases didn't arrive until 2002, with the albums ''Powerhouse Sessions'' and ''A Picturesque View, Ignored.''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Fischer|first=Tobias|date=2012|title=Room40: Label Profile {{!}} featured Australia Experimental|url=http://www.tokafi.com/news/room40-label-profile/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Tofaki}}</ref> Both were recorded live at [[Brisbane Powerhouse]] in 2002 and released December of that year.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Powerhouse Sessions, by DJ Olive Meets I/O3|url=https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/powerhouse-sessions|access-date=2022-02-25|website=[[Bandcamp]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A Picturesque View, Ignored, by David Toop, Scanner, I/O3|url=https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com/album/a-picturesque-view-ignored|access-date=2022-02-25|website=[[Bandcamp]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Tangari|first=Joe|date=2003|title=A Picturesque View, Ignored|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8109-a-picturesque-view-ignored/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US}}</ref>
Initially releasing music on CD, Room40 has also issued music on vinyl, [[Disc cutting lathe|lathe records]], digital audio files, DVD, and cassette tapes. In 2016 they released a sound box with an album of [[generative music]] by Spyros Polychronopoulos, meaning each time the listener presses play they will hear something new.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spyros Polychronopoulos Live Electronic Music {{!}} Exclaim!|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/spyros_polychronopoulos-live_electronic_music|access-date=2022-02-25|website=[[Exclaim!]]|language=en-ca}}</ref> The sound box sold out within four hours of being announced.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-12-05|title=Live Electronic Music|url=https://room40.org/live-electronic-music/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=ROOM40|language=en-US}}</ref>
They released their first book in 2010, Lawrence English's ''Site-Listening: Brisbane''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Zuvela|first=Danni|date=2010|title=RealTime Arts - Magazine - issue 97 - 10 years of room40: privileging the ears|url=http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue97/9881|access-date=2022-02-25|website=RealTime Arts}}</ref> The book features maps to 17 locations around Brisbane, with essays by [[David Toop]], Nick Earls and English, and recordings from the locations on a 3" CD.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ciociola|first=Chiara|title=Lawrence English, Site-Listening: Brisbane {{!}} Neural|url=http://neural.it/2011/09/lawrence-english-site-listening-brisbane/|access-date=2022-02-25|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2005 Room40 started Open Frame, an annual music festival held in Brisbane, with later events held in [[Sydney]] and London.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Starr|first=Lucinda|date=2015-07-30|title=Behind Australian Record Label Room40 with The Necks' Chris Abrahams|url=https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/arts-entertainment/music/behind-australian-record-label-room40-with-the-necks-chris-abrahams|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Concrete Playground|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Room40's Open Frame festival to include Jim O’Rourke, Grouper and more - The Wire|url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/36442/room40_s-open-frame-festival-to-include-jimo_rourke_|access-date=2022-02-25|website=The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music|language=en}}</ref> The most recent festival was held in 2019,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carriageworks’ Annual Festival of Transgressive Experimental Music Is Back|url=https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/event/open-frame-carriageworks-2019|access-date=2022-02-25|website=Broadsheet|language=en}}</ref> with the 2020 festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2020-10-28|title=no such array|url=http://inventingzero.net/home/no-such-array/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=John Chantler|language=en-US}}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
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* {{Discogs label|16420}}
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[[Category:2000 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Australian independent record labels]]